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Miss Todd's Vampire 

A Comedy in One Act 



By 

SALLY SHUTE 

Author of "Theodore, Jr." etc. 



NOTE 

The professional rights in this play are strictly reserved and 
application for the right to produce it should be made to the 
author in care of the publishers. Amateurs may produce it with- 
out payment of royalty on condition that the name of the author 
appears on all programmes and advertising issued in connection 
with such performances. 



BOSTON 

WALTER H. BAKER & CO. 
1920 



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Miss Todd's Vampire 



CHARACTERS 

Mrs. Winn. 
Miss Todd. 
Sue Makely. 
Enid Slater. 
Dan Morehouse. 




Copyright, 1919, by Walter H. Baker & Co. 



DEC 22 1919 
5:5426 



Miss Todd's Vampire 



SCENE. — A sitting-room in Miss Todd's house. There 
is a door c, leading in to a hall; a window in left wall, 
a fireplace in right wall with a mirror above. A sofa 
down r. front, an easy chair at l. Small table at r. 
with a work-basket on it. Another small table for tele- 
phone. Other chairs, a bookcase, pictures and any- 
thing suitable to complete scene. 

(Miss Todd is seated on the sofa knitting. She is a 
tall zvo man, well but not stylishly dressed. Rather 
quick in her speech. Mrs. Winn, her sister, short 
and plump, is dressed in outdoor dress. She speaks 
with a slight drawl and is very deliberate in her 
movements. She is seated when the curtain rises, 
but stands as she speaks.) 

Mrs. Winn. You don't know how I've enjoyed your 
supper, Abby. It's such a change fer me to set at other 
folks' tables. I do hope ter goodness Sarah looked after 
my boarders. 'Tain't often I leave 'em. 

Miss Todd. I guess it won't hurt 'em to kinder shift 
fer theirselves onct in a while. They'll think all the more 
of yer if you ain't a-runnin' round waitin' on 'em con- 
tinual. 

Mrs. Winn. I hate to eat an' run, Abby, but you 
know how 'tis with men-folks. Mr. Winn, he does 
abominate gittin' in right in the middle of a picture. The 
theatre is so dark, too, you can't see an inch afore yer 
nose. The other night I caught my coat button in Eben 
Stanley's too-pay an' lifted it right offen his head. Mis' 

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4 miss todd's vampire 

Stanley, she ain't spoke to me sense. I think some one 
orter complain. Well, I must be goin'. Too bad you 
gotter miss this show. Mr. Winn heard it was swell. 
Shiela Parer's great. They ain't nobody can beat her in 
the Vamp line. I didn't sleep a wink after I see her last 
time. I do wish you'd go with us. 

Miss Todd. Sm'ther time I'd be delighted; but I 
kinder feel it in my bones Sue'll be a-needin' of me to- 
night. 

Mrs. Winn. I wouldn't miss one fur anythin'. I'm 
awful sorry you can't go, Abby. 

Miss Todd. So'm I, Cad; it sounds awful interestm', 
but you see how it is, don't yer? All the boarders is 
a-goin' out an' I don't feel like havin' Sue here all alone 
to entertain this young man. 'Twill look more respect- 
able like to have an older woman round. Men appreci- 
ates them things. She seems as near ter me as if she was 
my own flesh an' blood, and she bein' a orphen, kinder 
clings ter me; she always tells me little things as happens 
in the shop ; and comes ter me f er advice, an' shows me 
her clothes an' hats an' things. I don't know what I'd do 
ef Sue went away ; why, she's the life of the house. 

Mrs. Winn {who has seated herself during Miss 
Todd's speech). Well, Abby Todd, ef I ain't a-settin' 
down agin. Winn, he says, I remind him of a person 
a-drownin'. I always rises three times afore I departs 
final. Winn's a great joker, Winn is. 

{Both ladies enjoy this joke.) 

Miss Todd. Say, Cad, keep yer sittin' jest a minute, 
will yer? I don't feel as- though I oughter tell yer this, 
but somehow it seems kinder mean not to, seein' as he's 
your boarder. 

Mrs. Winn {surprised). For the Ian' sakes, Abby 
Todd, ef you gut anythin' ter tell me, be quick erbout it. 
What's one of my young men ben an' done now? 

Miss Todd. Don't git so excited, Cad; 'tain't nothin' 
very bad; but who do yer suppose is waitin' on Sue 
Makely ? 

Mrs. Winn. One of my boarders? 



MISS TODD S VAMPIRE 5 

Miss Todd. Yes, but which? 

Mrs. Winn. Fred Somes, that's in the drug store; 
he's a great feller fer takin' the girls round. 

Miss Todd. No, Cad, it's your star boarder. He is 
a-takin' of her to the theatre this evenin'. 

Mrs. Winn. What! Not Dan Morehouse? 

Miss Todd. Yes, Dan Morehouse. 

Mrs. Winn (indignant). Well, ef Daniel Morehouse 
is a-comin' after your Sue, you needn't stay home ter 
chaperon. Mr. Morehouse is a gentleman ef ever there 
•was one. 

Miss Todd. Now don't yer git ter feelin' I don't 
trust that young man, Cad; but I believe a girl is lots 
more thought of if she has a sorter background, an' 
more'n likely she'll need me to hook up her dress. Oh, 
by the way, Cad, I do wish you'd stay an' see her new 
gownd. 

Mrs. Winn. Winn'll kill me, but I do like to see 
pretty new clothes. Do you suppose she's most ready ? 

Miss Todd. Wait a minute an' I'll holler up an' see. 
(She steps into the hall and calls.) Sue, oh, Sue! 

Sue (outside). What is it, Miss Todd? 

Miss Todd. Are you dressed yet? If you are, come 
down an' let Mis' Winn see yer new gownd. 

Sue. All right ; I'll be right there in a minute. 

Miss Todd (coming into room). She'll be down in a 
minute. 

Mrs. Winn. There, I told yer I'd have ter set again. 
(Sits.) I do hope her minutes ain't like some folks'. 
That Enid Slater, fer instance; always late ter every 
meal. My ! wa'n't I glad when her an' her mother left. 
I sez to Winn, I sez, " No more, no more women folks for 
me. I can't abide lady boarders." 

Miss Todd. Well, I can't say as I like the general 
run, but my bein' a single lady, of course, it wouldn't do 
for me to bar the gentler sex. Where do the Slaters live 
now? 

Mrs. Winn. In Boston. Enid's in one of them 
Beauty Parlors. You oughter see the paint she puts on. 
Fer the life of me, I can't see what her mother's thinkin' 



6 miss todd's vampire 

erbout. If she was a daughter of mine, I'd be ashamed 
to own to it. 

Sue {a pretty young girl, dressed most becomingly for 
the theatre,' comes in; she has a bright, joyous manner). 
Oh, I thought you were going to the pictures, Mrs. Winn. 

Mrs. Winn. -I am a-goin' ef I ever gits started, but I 
hate ter eat an' run, as I tells Cad. 

Sue. Didn't we have a good supper? 

Miss Todd {play f idly). Now, Sue, as if we didn't 
always have good vittles. 

Mrs. Winn. Turn round an' let's see yer dress. 
(Sue shows off the gown, with innocent pride.) My, 
ain't it swell? Where yer buy it, Sue? Shoon's an' 
Hines ? 

Miss Todd. I guess not; she bought it at Hattery's. 
'Twas one of them sampler dresses. She gut it at a bar- 
gin, didn't yer, Sue ? 

Mrs. Winn. You must have paid twenty-five dollars 
for that ef yer paid a cent. {Fingering the goods.) 

Sue. Shall I tell her, Miss Todd? 

Miss Todd {nods). Sure. 

Sue. I paid just nineteen dollars and seventy-nine 
cents. 

Mrs. Winn. Well, whatcher know erbout that! 
{Clock strikes.) Good Ian'! I'll ketch it. Thanks fer 
invitin' me ter supper. {Outside in hall, she calls back.) 
Good-bye. 

Miss Todd and Sue. Good-bye. 

Miss Todd {has been looking at Sue carefully). Sue, 
you ain't fixed them hooks on the shoulder right.. 

Sue. Oh, I meant to ask you to fasten them for me. 
They are very refractory. (Miss Todd fastens hooks and 
Sue gives her a grateful squeeze.) What would I do 
without you, you old dear. 

Miss Todd. It seems to me as if you needed a bit of 
color. A artificial flower or ribbon or somethin'. 

(Sue dances up to mirror, while Miss Todd gets bunch 
of flowers from drawer in table. ) 

Sue {takes them, and tries them on in different places 



MISS TODD S VAMPIRE 7 

about her dress). Do they look best here, Miss Todd, or 
here, or here? {She runs to mirror again.) 

Miss Todd. Sue, I do believe your petticoat hangs. 
Yes, I'll git a needle an' thread. 

{She goes to work-basket.) 

Sue. Oh, don't bother to sew it. Take a pin. 

Miss Todd. Sue Makely, now don't you be a-gittin' 
shiftless. You jest stan' right still an' 'twon't take a 
minute. (Miss Todd sits on sofa and Sue stands in 
rfront of her facing the audience. Sue pays no attention 
to Miss Todd's story. She is afraid that Dan will catch 
them.) Did I ever tell yer how Mandy Smith lost her 
beau ? 

Sue. Have you got it most done ? 

Miss Todd. Well, 'twas this way. Stand a little more 
over to the* right, Sue. No, to the right. Ephrim White, 
you've heard me speak of him? 

Sue. How much more is there to do? {Looks at 
work Miss Todd is doing.) Goodness, Dan will be here 
before you get it finished ! 

Miss Todd. That hall clock is fast. Well, to con- 
tinue, Eph White he was courtin' an' they was as good as 
engaged, when Flora Bean come ter live with Eph's aunt. 
Flora, she reminded me of Enid Slater somehow. She 
was the beatenist fer gittin' other girls' beaux away 

Sue {interrupting). Enid has always been nice to me, 
Miss Todd. 

Miss Todd. Well, you never had a beau for her to git 
away, did yer? There, it's all done. {She bites off 
thread.) Now stan' off an' let's have a look at yer. 
{Door-bell rings.) You look jest lovely, Sue. I wonder 
if Sarah is a-goin' to answer that door. {Listens.) 
Yes, there she goes. I do hate to keep folks waitin'. 

{They wait expectantly.) 

(Enid Slater rushes in — a tall, dark girl, very attract- 
ive, dressed in the extreme of fashion; her cheeks 
are noticeably rouged and her hair elaborately 
dressed under a very daring hat.) 



8 MISS TODD S VAMPIRE 

Enid. Hullo, Sue! (She embraces her.) 

Sue. Why, Enid, I didn't know you were in town. 

(She goes l.) 

Enid (throzving back coat, sits on the sofa). I'm only 
here for a few days. Well, how are you, Sue? Any- 
thing doing in this little old burg? 

Miss Todd (feeling ignored). How do you do, Miss 
Slater? (Miss Todd is up back.) 

Enid. Oh, how do? 

Miss Todd. Sue, I'm a-goin' up-stairs; want I should 
bring down your hat and coat? 

Sue. Thank you. 

(Miss Todd goes out.) 

Enid. You going out, Sue? 

Sue. . Yes. 

Enid. What, in that rig? 

Sue. Don't you like it, Enid ? 

Enid. Have you paid for it? If you haven't, I would 
advise you to send it back. 

Sue. What don't you like about it? 

Enid. I don't like anything about it. In the first 
place the color isn't becoming; then the neck isn't right 
for you. Perhaps it's because your hair isn't done well. 
I don't know as I can tell you just where the trouble is, 
but you look queer somehow. I could fix your hair, but 
the gown is simply impossible, Sue. 

(Telephone bells rings. Miss Todd enters with Sue's 
coat and hat. She goes to 'phone.) 

Miss Todd. Hullo Miss Makely? Yes, 

she's right here. Somebody for you, Sue. 

Sue (at 'phone). Hullo Oh, Dan, I'm so sorry 

Dangerously? That's good All right. 

Seven -thirty, at Dupont's Drug Store Yes, I can 

take that. Seven-twenty from the waiting station at the 

foot of the street No, I don't mind in the least. All 

right, good-bye. 



MISS TODD S VAMPIRE 9 

(Miss Todd is anxious during this telephone speech, 
and Enid is very much interested.) 

Miss Todd. Anybody sick, Sue ? Ain't yer a-goin' ? 

Sue. Dan says that his boss has been taken ill and 
sent for him about some business deal. He wants Dan 
to see to it, or something. So I'm to meet Dan at the 
drug store, as he won't have time to come out here after 
me. 

Enid. Sue, you don't mean to say that a man has 
asked you to meet him in a drug store, just like a common 
kitchen maid. My friends always come for me in a taxi, 
when we go to a theatre. Why, if a man didn't have any 
more respect for me than 

Miss Todd (interrupting). Mr. Dan Morehouse 
boards with my sister, Miss Enid Slater, an' I'll have you 
know he's a gentleman, an' what's more, folks can be 
common if they ain't kitchen maids. I mean I seen lots 
of maids that wasn't common an' lots of other folks that 
was. 

Enid. Aren't you a bit ambiguous, Miss Todd? 

Miss Todd. I may be amphibious, but I guess I can 
give Sue all the advice she needs. 

Sue. It's all right, Miss Todd; I am going to meet 
Dan at the drug store. 

(She takes up her coat and Miss Todd helps her into it.) 

Miss Todd (door-bell rings; Miss Todd goes out, say- 
ing). Don't miss yer car, Sue. 

Enid (a slight pause). Sue, dear, come over here a 
minute. (Sue goes to Enid, who draws her down on the 
sofa beside her. ) How long have you known Dan More- 
house ? 

Sue. Ever since before Christmas. 

Enid. That's after I got my job in Boston, isn't it? 
How did you meet him, Sue? Who introduced you? 

Sue. We were never really introduced; he used to 
come into the shop often about Christmas time, and I had 
always heard about him from Mrs. Winn, she's Miss 
Todd's sister, and he had heard about me from Miss 



10 MISS TODD S VAMPIRE 

Todd, so we felt acquainted and somehow he — why — we 
just drifted into a friendship. 

Enid. Sue, darling, I'm younger than you, but being 
so attractive to men, I've had more experience. I'm go- 
ing to give you a bit of advice. You won't take offense, 
will you, dearie? You know I am only doing this for 
your sake and because I love you. 

Sue {unmoved) . What advice do I need, Enid? You 
would better save it until another time. I am going to 
take this car. 

Enid. You are really going to accept the attentions of 
a man to whom you have never been properly introduced. 
Sue Makely, have you ever stopped to think what his 
opinion of you will be ? Don't you know that a girl who 
is boarding has to be twice as careful as one in her own 
home? (Sue rises and walks away.) Sue, dear, listen 
to me; you are cheapening yourself terribly. 

Sue. Don't be tragic, Enid. I am not a child, at least 
give me the benefit of a little discretion. Mr. Morehouse 
is a gentleman. It's only because his employer is ill and 
needs him that he isn't coming to the house. 

(She puts on her hat.) 

Enid (who is desperate). Sue, you must listen to me. 
It's not you I care about. I've lied and lied. It's Dan. 
If Dan Morehouse doesn't forgive me and take me back 
I'll die. I'll kill myself. 

Sue. Dan, take you back ? What do you mean, Enid ? 

Enid. Oh, Sue, didn't you know we were engaged to 
be married? 

Sue. Engaged to be married ! 

Enid. It was when you were on your vacation, and I 
like a silly fool flirted with Fred Somes, at least that is 
What Dan thought. I was really scarcely decent to Fred, 
but you have no idea how horribly jealous Dan is. Such 
a scene! It makes me sick to think of it. I thought I 
could never forgive Dan, but, oh, Sue, I've just got to 
have a chance to explain. Poor Dan, I suppose that's 
why he is so kind to you, my most intimate friend, think- 
ing that perhaps you might help fix things up between us. 



MISS TODD S VAMPIRE II 

Sue. You are flattering, Enid. When did all this 
happen ? 

Enid. Just before Christmas time. When he began 
to take notice of you. Sue, won't you help me? 

Sue. But I don't understand. I don't see how my not 
going to the theatre with a man who doesn't care for me 
is going to help you. 

Enid. Let me go in your place, Sue, darling. You 
telephone Dan at Dupont's that you have sprained your 
ankle or that you've a splitting headache or tell him any- 
thing so long as you don't go. Do this for me, Sue. I 
will be there when he comes out of the telephone booth, 
and don't be afraid ; I will find some way to convince him 
that I am ready to take him back. You will be the means 
of making two miserable people happy. I'll never ask 
you to do another thing for me as long as I live. 

(She sobs.) 

Sue (convinced of Enid's sincerity slowly takes off her 
hat and coat). If you hurry, Enid, you will catch the 
seven-twenty car. 

Enid (recovering quickly, rushes to Sue and kisses 
her) . Oh, you darling Sue ! 

(Sue, in removing her coat, drops the little bunch of 
flowers. Enid stoops and picking them up, puts 
them in her coat, as she goes out. SuE'sinks on the 
couch with a little moan; the outer door is heard to 
close. A slight pause and Miss Todd comes in.) 

Miss Todd. Why, Sue Makely, I thought I heard you 
go out. Why, Sue, what's the matter? I bet it's that 
Vampire's doin's. What is it, child? 

Sue (putting her arms around Miss Todd and her 
head on Miss Todd's shoulder). Don't ask me now, 
please. (Then getting braver.) I'm going up-stairs, 
and — and, Miss Todd, in about fifteen minutes will you 
ring up Dupont's and tell Dan — Mr. Morehouse — that I 
won't be able to keep my appointment; that I have a 
blinding headache. 



12 MISS TODD S VAMPIRE 

Miss Todd. All right, dear, I'll telephome. (She 
kisses Sue, and Sue goes out. She waits until she hears 
Sue's door close and then goes quickly to the 'phone, 

which rings as she is about to use it.) Hello Well, 

ain't that funny? I was jest a-goin' to call you up 

What's that? He'll be right here in a lemmonzeene 

Yes, I understand. Sue isn't to take the car 

Yes, I'll tell her. Thank the Lord that hall clock was 

fast, or that Vampire Good-bye. (Sue enters. 

She looks woebegone.) Why, Sue, I didn't hear you 
come in. 

Sue. I just couldn't stay up there all alone. 

Miss Todd. You poor little soul. There, curl right 
up on the sofa. 

Sue. Miss Todd, do you believe one girl would delib- 
erately tell a malicious lie to another, just to hurt, without 
anything to gain by it? 

Miss Todd. Scores of 'em. Didn't I tell yer about 
Flora Bean? 

Sue. But how is a girl to find out whether it is a lie 
or not? (Door-bell.) 

Miss Todd. I'll answer that myself. I let Sarah go 
out jest now. (Sue starts to get up from sofa, where 
she has been lying.) Don't yer move, honey; if it's any 
one that's a-comin' in, I'll cough, and you can run afore 
they gits in here. 

Sue. All right. 

(A pause, then Dan Morehouse, a young, well-built, 
healthy, honest type of man, coughs as he is about to 
enter the door which Miss Todd left open. Sue, 
thinking it is a signal, hurrying to get away, runs 
right into Dan's arms.) 

Dan. Hello, Sue! By George, what a beauty dress. 

New, isn't it? (Sue has drawn away quickly and is 
seated on the sofa.) Stand up, Sue, and let's look at you. 
Got your hair done differently, too. My, but you're some 
swell! (Sue remains on sofa.) Well, what did you 
think when you got my message? 
Sue. What message? 



miss todd's vampire 13 

Dan. Didn't Fred Somes telephone for you not to 
take the car ? That I was coming out for you ? 

Sue. No. 

Dan. So you didn't know we were going in a limou- 
sine. Some class to us. 

Sue. A limousine? Whose? 

Dan. My boss's. Just think, sick as he was, he re- 
membered that I was going to take you to the theatre. 
I guess I got sort of fidgety and he said: " Don't worry, 
Dan, you'll have time enough. I'm going to let you take 
your little Arts and Crafts girl in my limerousine." He's 
mighty fond of you, Sue; calls you the Arts and Crafts 
Girl ; the girls he doesn't like he calls the Artfuls and 
Crafties. Likes his little jokes, the old man does. 

Sue (calmly). Yes? 

Dan (beginning to notice Sue's manner, he takes a box 
of candy out of his coat pocket). Here's a little candy 
I bought for Miss Todd. (As he takes out the box a 
bunch of artificial flowers drops from his pocket on the 
floor.) Get your coat on, Sue, and we can take a little 
spin before the theatre. (Sue is looking at the flowers. 
Dan's gaze follows hers. ) Oh, I picked them up on the 
steps. Are they yours? 

Sue (quietly, watching Dan). Enid Slater must have 
dropped them. 

Dan. Enid Slater ? I thought I saw her in the wait- 
ing station just now, but I was sure I must have been 
mistaken. Is she boarding here? 

Sue. No, she came to see me. 

Dan. What did she come to see you for? 

Sue. To get me to ask you to renew the engagement. 

Dan. Engagement — what engagement? 

Sue. Marriage, of course. 

Dan. So that's her little game ! Sue, I'm going to tell 
you quite a story. Please listen, dear, and then judge me. 

Sue. I am listening, Dan. 

Dan. You didn't know that Enid Slater was once en- 
gaged to Fred Somes? 

Sue. To Fred Somes? Why, she sard 

Dan. Just a minute, dear. They were going to be 



14 MISS TODD S VAMPIRE 

married before Fred sailed for France. It was to be 
kept very quiet because Fred was afraid his grandfather 
would not approve. You know the old man is wealthy 
and Fred is to be his heir. 

Sue. No, I didn't know; but go on. 

Dan. I was to act as best man, see to the license and 
all that. Well, to make a long story short, one day when 
I was alone in the office with a drummer, he jumped up 
quick right in the midst of a yarn and went to the win- 
dow. " By ," said he, " how long have the Ritz 

women been in this town?" I looked out over his 
shoulder and said : " Ritz women, man ; that is Enid 
Slater and her mother." " Enid nothing," said Bigler, 
the drummer; " if that isn't Emmer Ritz and her pal, I'll 
eat my hat. Why, boy, that pair are notorious crooks." 
Then I told him about Fred and that he was to be mar- 
ried in two or three days. " Something ought to be done 
right away. We'll have to trap them," said he. " And it 
won't be a snap, either." 

Sue. Why didn't you go right to Fred and tell him? 
You are such friends. 

Dan. Would I believe him if he said anything against 
you ? Not much ! It was up to me to furnish proof, and 
I tell you I felt sick. This Bigler's word was all I had. 
I said, " You are sure that this is Emma Ritz ? " 
" Sure ? " said he. " Dan, I was trimmed the prettiest by 
that girl three years ago — two big diamonds and a wad of 
bills." 

(At the beginning of this speech Sue shows that she 
is ashamed for ever doubting Dan.) 

Sue. Why didn't he have her arrested ? 

(She from this time on shows that she is in sympathy 
with Dan.) 

Dan. That's what I asked him, and he said that he 
didn't want his friends to know what an ass he had made 
of himself. Well, finally we hit upon a plan. I was to 
get Fred, on the pretense of talking over the approaching 
marriage, into the back parlor of the boarding house. 



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Sue I should think he would have been suspicious. 
Didn't he think it was strange, your not going to lus 
room instead of the parlor? 

Dan. We thought of that, so I just pulled him in 
there after supper as we were going through the hall 1 
had asked Mrs. Winn to tell Emd that I wanted to see her 
in the front parlor on important business and 1 asked 
Mrs Whin to see that we were not disturbed by the other 
boarders Well, I was talking to. Fred trying to make 
him beieve That there was some difficulty about getting a 
cense when I heard Enid go into the front room; I had 
smugg ed Bigler in there while the rest were in to supper 
My heart stood still. Emd ^ave a little cry of surpr.se 
and Bigler sailed right in. I heard him say, Hullo Em 
what are you doing here ? " Then she said sometog, bu 
so low we couldn't hear her. " Oh can that stuff ht 
said • " vou trimmed me pretty slick, didn t you i t,ot my 
soarklers right in your ears now. Come, 'f ess up, girl , 
Fve had you trailed for the last three years, and my de- 
tectives onlv spotted you yesterday. 

Sue Why, did Fred let him talk to her like that 
Dan He started to stop him, but I convinced him 
that it would be better to let Enid prove the fellow a bar 
or we might always doubt her. Bigler went on Don t 
took so scared, girl ; you give me back the sparklers and 
oromise to fork over four thousand dollars when old Du 
P leaves his property , to yonr F.ddy^d £ won t 

STbnt she^rted'to leave the room, evidently, for he 
3 "Not so fast, young lady; I want th, ^ . wntmg. 
Then after a little pause Bigler coughed That was my 
«<m-,1 so I threw open the double doors. Emd made a 

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this." 

Sue. What did Fred do? 



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Dan. I'll tell you that on the way ; we must hurry or 
we'll be late. 

Sue {goes to the telephone). Give me 4986R, please. 

Yes, the waiting station Hullo Is Miss Slater 

there ? Thank you. Hand me my coat, please, Dan. 

Dan. Hope she'll hurry. 

{He puts Sue's coat on his arm.) 

Sue. Hullo, Enid Yes, I know our clock was 

fast I just rang you up to tell you I've changed my 

mind. I'm going to the theatre with Dan Yes, in 

a limousine 

Dan. Tell her I'm here. 

Sue. He's here. 

Dan. And that I've got a raise. 

Sue. He's had a raise. 

Dan. And we're engaged to be married. (Sue hesi- 
tates.) Say it, Sue. 

Sue. And we're engaged to be married. 

(Dan rushes toward Sue as the curtain goes down.) 

{For second, curtain: Only Miss Todd is on the stage. 
She stands at the window peering through her 
cupped hands, out into the street. A horn sounds 
outside. ) 



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Getting the Range 

Her First Assignment 

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Joint Owners in Spain 

A King's Daughter 

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A Lady to Call 

Leave it to Polly 

The Minute Man 

Miss Fearless & Co. 

A Modern Cinderella 

Moth- Balls 

Rebecca's Triumph 

The Thirteenth Star 

Twelve Old Maids 

An Awkward Squad 

The Blow-Up of Algernon Blow 

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A Close Shave 

The First National Boot 

A Half- Back's Interference 

His Father's Son 

The Man With the Nose 

On the Quiet 

The People's Money 

A Regular Rah ! Rah ! Boy 

A Regular Scream 

Schmerecase in School 

The Scoutmaster 

The Tramps' Convention 

The Turn in the Road 

Wanted— A Pitcher 

What They Did for Jenkins 

Aunt Jerusha's Quilting Party 

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